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The High Steel Bridge is a truss arch bridge that spans the south fork of the Skokomish River, on National Forest Service road #2340 in Mason County, Washington, near the city of Shelton. [1] The bridge is 685 feet (209 m) long, and its deck is 375 feet (114 m) above the river.
Royal Gorge Bridge, highest bridge in the United States. This is a list of the highest bridges in the United States by height over land or water. Height in this list refers to the distance from the bridge deck to the lowest point on the land, or the water surface, directly below.
The Vance Creek Bridge is an arch bridge in the Satsop Hills of Mason County, Washington that was built for a logging railroad owned by the Simpson Logging Company in 1929. At 347 feet (106 m) in height, it is the second-highest railroad arch in the United States after the nearby High Steel Bridge . [ 2 ]
The bridge was opened to traffic on November 2, 1971. It was constructed by Peter Kiewit & Sons , [ 1 ] who won the contract with a bid of $4,356,070 (equivalent to about $38,167,000 in 2024). [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The bridge was part of a 2.8-mile (4.5 km) long, $1.7 million (equivalent to $14 million in 2024) [ 2 ] segment of the Interstate 82 freeway ...
Floating bridges carry Interstate 90 and State Route 520 across Lake Washington to the Eastside suburbs. [6] The SR 520 Albert D. Rosellini Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, which opened in 2016 as the replacement for another floating bridge at the same site, [7] [8] is the longest floating bridge in the world.
The Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, also known as the 520 Bridge and officially the Governor Albert D. Rosellini Bridge, is a floating bridge that carries Washington State Route 520 across Lake Washington from Seattle to its eastern suburbs.
The Aurora Bridge (officially called the George Washington Memorial Bridge) is a cantilever and truss bridge in Seattle, Washington, United States. It carries State Route 99 ( Aurora Avenue North) over the west end of Seattle 's Lake Union and connects Queen Anne and Fremont .
This list of tallest bridges includes bridges with a structural height of at least 200 metres (660 ft). The structural height of a bridge is the maximum vertical distance from the uppermost part of a bridge, such as the top of a bridge tower, to the lowermost exposed part of the bridge, where its piers, towers, or mast pylons emerge from the surface of the ground or water.